FISHES OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS AND ADJACENT SEAS 19 



17032. Bisucay Island, Cuyos Islands. April 9, 1909. Length 55 mm. (Type 



No. 70248 U.S.N.M.) 

 One example. Candaraman Island, Balabac. January 4, 1909. Length 45 mm. 

 One example (D. 5179). Romblon vicinity. March 25, 1908. Length 39 mm. 

 24015 (788). Tara Island, Mindoro Strait. December 15, 1908. Length 55 



mm. Dusky, with reddish-brown shades. Round blackish blotch larger than 



pupil, midway between pectoral and lateral line. 



APOGONICHTHYS POLYSTIGMA Bleeker 



Apogonichthys poly stigma Bleeker, Nat. Tijds. Nederland. Indie, vol. 6, 1854, 

 p. 484. Wahai, Ceram; Priaman, Sumatra. — Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. 

 Mus., vol, 1, 1859, p. 246 (copied). — Peters, Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 

 1868, p. 256 (Pulobrani, Singapore). — Karoli, Termesz. Fiizetek, Buda- 

 pest, vol. 5, 1882, p. 152 (Singapore). — Meyer, Anal. Soc. Espafi. Hist. 

 Nat., Madrid, vol. 14, 1885, p. 13 (Cebu).— Beaufort, Bijd. Dierk., 

 Amsterdam, 1913, p. 115 (Amboina). 



Pseudamia polystigma Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Norland., vol. 7, 1873-76, 

 p. 107 (Amboina); vol. 8, 1876-77, pi. (70) 348, fig. 2.— Elera, Cat. Fauna 

 Filip., 1895, p. 471 (Cebu).— Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 

 1906 (1907), p. 17 (Cavite). 



Pseudoamia polystigma Seale, Philippine Journ. Sci , vol. 5, No. 4, 1910, p. 

 274 (Sandakan, Borneo). 



Apogonichthys isostigma Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 

 (1906), p. 251, fig. 45. Apia, Samoa. 



Fowleria isostigma Kendall and Radcliffe, Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 

 35, 1912, p. 104 (Mangareva, Paumotus; types of Apogonichthys isostigma). 



Apogonichthys auritus (not Valenciennes) Fowler, Mem. Bishop Mus., vol. 

 10, 1928, p. 163 (Mangareva; type of Apogonichthys isostigma). 



Depth 33^ to 4 ; head 2J4 to 2%, width 2% to 3. Snout 4J/g to 5 in 

 head from snout tip; eye V/2 to 4}4, greater than snout or interorbital, 

 subequal with interorbital with age; maxillary reaches opposite hind 

 eye edge, expansion l}/£ to 1% in eye, length 2 in head; band of villi- 

 form upper teeth narrow, row of fine, conic lower teeth with median 

 lateral canine in each mandibular ramus followed by 2 smaller ones, 

 2 long inner upper canines and narrow band or row of fine teeth on 

 vomer and each palatine; interorbital 434 to 43^, convex; preopercle 

 ridge entire, little distinct, edge entire except 4 or 5 slight denticles 

 at angle; preorbital entire. Gill rakers 2 + 12, lanceolate, with 2 to 4 

 more as rudiments above and below, longest much greater than gill 

 filaments or 1% in eye. 



Scales 26 to 28 in lateral line to caudal base and 4 or 5 more on 

 latter; 5 above, 7 below, about 25 to 28 predorsal to snout; 4 rows 

 of scales on cheek to preopercle ridge. Tubes in lateral line simple, 

 small, little marked, though well exposed. Scales with 9 or 10 basal 

 radiating striae; 18 to 22 circuli. 



D. VI-I, 8, 1, third spine 23^ to 2% in total head length, third dorsal 

 ray 13^ to 1^5; A. II, 8,1, or 9, 1, second spine 3 to 3>£, first ray 1% to 2; 

 caudal 1% to l)i, ends in slight median point; least depth of caudal 

 peduncle 2% to 3; pectoral \% to 1%; ventral 2 to 2^. 



